Battleship Potemkin
1925 | Drama | Soviet Union | Directed by Sergei Eisenstein
Overview
Eisenstein montage theory made flesh. The Odessa Steps sequence, a baby carriage rolling down amid massacre, is maybe the most studied few minutes in cinema. Soviet montage influenced editing worldwide, from newsreels to action films. Commissioned as revolutionary propaganda, it still demonstrates how cutting creates meaning better than any textbook.
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